Jaeger-LeCoultre AMVOX5 World Chronograph LMP1

The Swiss Grande Maison Jaeger-LeCoultre has recently revealed a limited edition of its popular (albeit very expensive) AMVOX5 model that was created together with the British luxury sports car maker Aston Martin. Called Jaeger-LeCoultre AMVOX5 World Chronograph LMP1 (ref. Q193J480), the watch will be produced in a limited run of only 250 pieces with most of them probably going into heavily guarded vaults of the British automaker’s most valued customers.

As the original model, the new JLC AMVOX5 World Chronograph LMP1 (LMP1 here is for Le Mans Prototype – a sports car designed to take part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans) is delivered in a rather large case that combines lightweight titanium and scratch-resistant ceramic parts.

Whole 44 millimeters in diameter and 15 millimeters in height, the watch will certainly be noticed by everyone.

The first thing that immediately gets noticed is the new color scheme.

Besides the signature “Aston Martin orange” color of the chronograph hands, there is also a high-contrast blue and white color scheme of the city disk and the chronograph totalizers at 3 and 9 o’clock.

The date window that was previously located at 5 hours, has been moved 30 degrees clockwise and now sits comfortably at 6 o’clock, right below the small seconds hand that, as usual, doesn’t look like a seconds hand at all.

The 24-hour second time zone display is still indicated with a nondescript second hour hand that seems to be crafted from titanium. Although the main hour and minute hands are covered with generous amount of Superluminova, the GMT hand still comes without any lume whatsoever. What a shame!

It is possibly needless to say that the limited edition timekeeper is powered by the same Jaeger-LeCoultre caliber 752 automatic movement that animated the original version.

Crafted, assembled and decorated by hand, the movement offers a nice power reserve of 65 hours, which makes it possible to put the watch in safe on Friday evening and take it back on Monday morning without worrying about whether it is still running or stopped dead 10 hours ago.

A nice watch, that, but I have a strong feeling that, like the original, it will retail at an outrageously high price of at least $20,000.